On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > Too late IMHO. You had ample time to propose this patch. > > > > Well, it depends on whether it is a big or small change, right? > > Yes, of course. This strikes me rather a large feature addition at this stage > of the development. It needs testing and some discussion (e.g., I wonder why > we add support for tabular* but not for tabularx).
Isn't this a discussion? I would say it is a great, rather than large, feature addition. > I don't doubt the usefulness of this feature. I attach here some notes made in the 1.4 era on how to achieve the same effect in LyX (tables-1.4.lyx) and how it is possible to do it with the patch by Edwin (tables-2.0.lyx). Note that without his patch I would have to adjust the "latex argument" for each column in the table, while now I have simply to add a new column and nothing else. Not mentioning the need of using strange ERT for tweaking things. Great patch Edwin! -- Enrico
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false sideways false status open \begin_layout Caption \align block \begin_inset LatexCommand \label{Tab1} \end_inset Sample table \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Tabular <lyxtabular version="3" rows="4" columns="4"> <features> <column alignment="left" valignment="top" width="0" special="@{}p{0.25\textwidth}"> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" width="0" special="@{}p{0.25\textwidth}"> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" width="0" special="@{}p{0.25\textwidth}"> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" width="0" special="@{}p{0.25\textwidth}@{}"> <row topline="true"> <cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none"> \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \emph on Column 1 \end_layout \end_inset </cell> <cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none"> \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status collapsed \begin_layout Standard \backslash hfil 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If you'd like to insert more rows in this table, place the cursor on the row under which you want to insert another one and select from the menu \family sans Edit\SpecialChar \menuseparator Rows\InsetSpace ~ &\InsetSpace ~ Columns\SpecialChar \menuseparator Add Row \family default . \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard If you click with the right mouse button inside the tabular block, the ``Table Settings'' dialog appears, whereas right-clicking the table caption brings up the ``Float Settings'' dialog, where you can choose the table placement. You can set a column width by first clicking on the column you want to work on, and then changing its \family typewriter p{width} \family default LaTeX argument in the ``Table Settings'' dialog \begin_inset Foot status collapsed \begin_layout Standard Be sure to press the Enter key to commit any change you make in the ``Table Settings'' dialog. \end_layout \end_inset . In Table\InsetSpace ~ \begin_inset LatexCommand \ref{Tab1} \end_inset the column width is specified as a percentage of the page (text) width, and for a 5-columns table the width specification would be \family typewriter p{0.2 \backslash textwidth} \family default . The construct \family typewriter @{} \family default was added to suppress the extra space LaTeX normally inserts between columns. This construct should be placed to the left of the \family typewriter p{...} \family default specification in all columns but the last, where it should also appear to its right. 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